SAIL TO STEAM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1940, Page 9

SAIL TO STEAM

LINK BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN & NEW ZEALAND THE PROGRESS OF SHIPPING. FLAG OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS On February 6 the centenary of the Dominion of New Zealand was fittingly celebrated, states an article in the “Port of London Authority Monthly.” Much has been written about the links of sentiment and common interests which bind the mother Country and the daughter State, reinforced today by common endeavours to defend common ideals and the right to live in accordance with a common faith and customs. Separated by thousands of miles of sea, it is remarkable, on the one hand, that the characterists of the mother Country should have been so completely and vitally preserved in the Dominion and, on the other hand, that the homeland has, despite preoccupations nearer at hand, retained effectionate regard and interest for their kinsmen in the Antipodes. No small part of the credit for this is due to the shipping men who have maintained the lines of communication and made possible the mutually advantageous trade between the two countries. At such a time a special tribute is due to the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co.. Ltd., the oldest shipping company in the New Zealand trade, which has 'played a very important part in the history and development of New Zealand. Throughout the eighty years of its existence the association of the company. New Zealand and the Port of London have been of the closest. Mr Walter Savill and Mr R. E. Shaw, the founders, gained their first experience as shipbrokers' clerks and in 1858 set up in business on their own account under the title of Shaw. Savill and Company. The company was, of